🚨 American Law Professor Eulogizes Iran’s Supreme Leader as a “True Anti-Imperialist Revolutionary” and Says “There are millions… calling for revenge, frankly.”

This isn’t coming from Tehran state TV. It’s coming from Nina Farnia, an Albany Law School professor.

“For many, Ayatollah Khamenei was an important figure of revolution and resistance… to all the peoples of the world that support the liberation of our peoples.”

Farnia says Iran is holding its own in a “struggle against the most powerful, vile empire in world history,” and argues that “getting rid of Israel,” which she calls a “military base” and a “genocidal entity,” is an “existential matter” for anti-imperialists.

She describes his assassination as “an incredible loss” and calls it “a tragic, tragic loss for the resistance, for the region, and I think for the world.”

Farnia also worries people in the diaspora will “complicate” Khamenei’s legacy, which she treats as a shame because “he was brilliant.”

Then it starts sounding like cope. She frames his death as “martyrdom” and suggests he may be more powerful now that he’s gone.

“A martyr never dies… a martyr can be more powerful after life than while living… and in the case of Ayatollah Khamenei, it seems like that actually may be true.” Here is her official school bio. It’s wild how often the “anti-imperialist” apologia and the critical race theory lane overlap in academia.

🧵From Pentagon Bombs to Praise for Mamdani: Bill Ayers Says the Quiet Part Out Loud

I tuned into this Bill Ayers (Weather Underground) interview and it’s a gold mine—if you’re cataloging unrepentant radicalism.

He casually reminisces about putting “a stick of dynamite in the Pentagon,” then slips into “overthrow capitalism” and “abolition” talk like it’s a morning routine. He recounts meeting Vietnamese revolutionaries in Cuba before going underground, name-checks Rashid Khalidi, explicitly calls Zohran Mamdani’s election “very helpful,” and even jokes about the Leonardo DiCaprio character in One Battle After Another.

Stick around, I’ve got more Ayers clips to share. Bill Ayers lays out his “two legs” theory for revolutionary change: mobilization from below, what he calls “fire from below,” paired with institutional politics. He explicitly praises Zohran Mamdani, Ilhan Omar, and Bernie Sanders, framing them as useful, but ultimately secondary to mass movements.

Ayers is blunt about the hierarchy. Elections do not drive change. Pressure does. He points to Barack Obama as proof: without an independent movement applying force, even sympathetic politicians will fold.

He says he admires figures like Mamdani because that kind of electoral organizing is a skill he does not have. His role, he insists, is agitation.

Ayers ends by saying the movement has to “talk through the contradictions and find common ground.” We’ll come back to that in the next clip.

Shame on @UCLA for canceling the Daniel Pearl Memorial Lecture featuring Bari Weiss. Code Pink and even Hasan Piker spent weeks pressuring UCLA to pull the plug, and Code Pink co-founder Jodie Evans, who lives in China, was celebrating the cancellation on Instagram this morning. Here’s Jodie Evans’ IG story on it. And remember, just last week the State Department warned that Code Pink was operating as a foreign influence effort.

And you still bent the knee to an astroturfed cancellation campaign.

Cornell Career Services is hosting an info session with @anduriltech tomorrow. Student activists are already trying to get it canceled, and if past is prologue, they’ll try to disrupt it in the room too.

If this gets shut down, it won’t hurt Anduril. It hurts @Cornell students who came to network, learn, and compete for internships, only to have a recruiting event hijacked into a political spectacle.

Debate the politics all you want. Don’t sabotage career programming. Flagging this for you too, @PalmerLuckey! Here’s a longer version that makes clear the activists aren’t just targeting Anduril. They’ve gone after Boeing and Lockheed Martin too, and it’s becoming routine at Cornell, which is genuinely sad.

At some point you’re not “holding companies accountable,” you’re policing what your classmates are allowed to be interested in. Some students want to learn about engineering, defense tech, military service, or law enforcement careers.

Not everyone wants to spend college cosplaying permanent protest in a keffiyeh.

🧵 Super thread of mugshots from various University of Minnesota protest arrests.

If this is the campus pipeline, it’s fair to ask why parents keep writing checks. And why isn’t @usedgov looking at what’s being enabled here?

Buckle up. Unreal.
As always, everyone is presumed innocent until proven guilty.

🚨 BREAKING: Four University of Minnesota students have chained themselves to Morrill Hall in an on-campus protest against ICE. Yes, this is the same building students occupied back in October 2024.

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🚨 “Please Care Enough to Get the Bazooka” — Antifa Militancy Without the Filter

When people think of Antifa, Eric G. King should be a face that comes to mind. Why? Spend two minutes with this clip from a recent book talk and you’ll see how radical his worldview really is.

King openly describes assaulting police: “I’ve thrown shit at cops. I’ve thrown piss at cops.” Then he pivots to lamenting that activists aren’t willing to go far enough. Prison, he argues, has been normalized as an acceptable consequence, while rage should instead be directed at the people who “make money off prisons.”

His solution isn’t reform. It’s force. He mocks letter-writing campaigns and pleads for something more visceral. “Please care enough to write,” he says, “but also please care enough to get that bazooka.”

King also says he’s heavily medicated, describing violent impulses so extreme that without mood stabilizers he might “pull a knife on someone at a grocery store for bumping into you.”

From there, the worldview sharpens. Law enforcement is collectively defined as the enemy. He claims ICE is “militarized” and broadly smears them as “Proud Boys” and “militants.” His back tattoo says it plainly: “Every cop is my enemy.”

He then laments the state of the abolition movement, criticizing it as too theoretical instead of physically tearing down prisons.

The panel even acknowledges the possibility of federal surveillance, with King directing a message to the FBI agent he assumes is listening: “Go fucking kill yourself… go plant a garden.”

King is currently on a national book tour and has even been interviewed by Business Insider. This isn’t anonymous online rage. Here’s King telling the firebombing story that led to his arrest.

In 2014, after returning from Ferguson, he describes feeling isolated in Kansas City and frustrated that no one around him was willing to engage in what he considered real “direct action.” When his small affinity group failed to “raise the temperature,” he decided to escalate on his own and threw Molotov cocktails at a congressman’s office.

What follows is his account of the charges, the plea deal, and nearly a decade behind bars, much of it in solitary. He frames the attack as an extension of his then-insurrectionary anarchism, rooted in violence and system-toppling, before shifting to how prison reshaped his worldview.

This is speculation on my part, but I’ve long suspected the choice of target was deliberate, meant to make the attack read as a hate crime and inflame tensions in the city.

🧵The “General Strike” is the Far-Left dream scenario.

Listen to the progression in this clip. It starts with outrage over a shooting tied to ICE, then quickly moves to “it won’t be the Democrats” and “it won’t be anyone in the White House.” The conclusion is not reform or accountability, but escalation: “we shut it down” and “we launch a general strike.”

That’s not a narrow demand about ICE enforcement. It’s a broader revolutionary frame that rejects normal politics and treats mass economic disruption as the end goal. It’s also worth noting this is a Singham Network talking point, and they’re pushing it hard. And have been for months.

“A general strike is the next step… to build a socialist future.”

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Read my latest in @CityJournal!

The Tariq El-Tahrir Student Network connects student activists with members of Hamas and is tied to a group at the University of Washington. The university unsuspended activists last week, despite $1M in damage and no local criminal charges. A ton of work went into this piece, by me and a whole crew of great people at @CityJournal. It was a labor of love, and we’re hoping it drives real accountability at UW and raises awareness about well organized networks like Tariq El-Tahrir. city-journal.org/article/univer…

🧵ICYMI, @SpanbergerForVA is clearing out UVA’s Board after Jim Ryan quit on their watch.

Blame Ryan. He treated civil-rights compliance like a gamble.

“How much risk are you willing to take?”

DOJ demanded documentation of civil-rights compliance. UVA turned in nothing. @SpanbergerForVA Ryan hints at using legal gray areas to keep DEI alive. But UVA counsel under Ryan, Tim Heaphy, admitted UVA ran DEI programs that crossed legal lines—and that prior administrations signaled they wouldn’t enforce federal civil-rights law.

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🚨 Radical Organizer Invokes Minneapolis Burning the 3rd Precinct and Claims “Every Neighborhood” Now Has Rapid Response Groups to Confront ICE

On tonight’s Scholars for Social Justice call, Noah Schumacher, a Minneapolis organizer with the Twin Cities Coalition for Justice, framed Minneapolis as a model of escalation, explicitly invoking the burning of the Third Precinct after George Floyd’s murder.

“This is the same city that burned down, that burned down the 3rd precinct, after, after George Floyd was murdered.”

He then claimed a metro-wide infrastructure of “rapid response groups” now exists in every neighborhood across Minneapolis, St. Paul, and the suburbs, with the stated purpose of monitoring ICE activity and mobilizing to “confront” agents.

“Every neighborhood in Minneapolis, every neighborhood in St. Paul, every neighborhood in the surrounding suburbs… has formed rapid response groups.”

“These groups have dedicated community members reporting on ICE activity so that people can respond as quickly as possible to observe, document, and confront these ICE agents.”

Schumacher did not present this as reform politics. He described it as revolutionary organizing aimed at power, explicitly rejecting reform as the goal.

“We are a revolutionary organization. Our focus is political power.”

“[There is] no reforming the police or reforming ICE.”

He also appeared wearing a National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression shirt, which is worth flagging as his organization is an affiliate of NAARPR.

Schumacher praised how Minneapolis has a deep bench of experienced activists and that is why this kind of mobilization is possible.

“There's a lot of seasoned, experienced organizers in Minneapolis. There's a strong activist culture in Minneapolis, and so people are showing up and getting in the streets, and it's a beautiful thing to see.”

Stick around. Next I’ll show Schumacher walking through the full rapid response playbook in his own words, plus how their coalition work fits into it. A lot of this won’t shock anyone who’s been tracking this organizing space. But hearing Schumacher lay it out on video is different. It’s one thing to talk in abstractions. It’s another to hear the operational details described plainly, start to finish.

-Schumacher says organized groups go to the Whipple Federal Building every day, describing it as where ICE is “housed” and where detainees are brought.

-He says “rapid response” members show up as early as 4 a.m. to scout and document how many ICE agents enter and leave.

-He describes recording vehicle descriptions and license plates and “getting a read” on agents’ routines and everyday movements.

-He says organizers follow ICE agents around the city and report back to rapid response groups on where they go and what they’re doing.

-He claims they’ve organized patrol groups “on constant alert,” driving and walking through neighborhoods, especially Cedar Riverside.

-He says activists identify the hotels where ICE agents are staying and do all night noise demos “to make sure they don’t get any sleep.”

-He frames this as planned infrastructure, saying they prepared for “increased repression” by building a “united front.”

Schumacher also says the coalition came first. He claims the People’s Action Coalition against Trump, involving 20+ organizations, was formed months ago and that this groundwork is what enabled them to mobilize thousands quickly when ICE agents arrived.

Nothing to see here. Just the daughter of a Holy Land Foundation leader convicted of providing material support to Hamas, a senior Freedom Road Socialist Organization figure, and Zena Ozeir, who has worked as an assistant attorney general in Michigan. Whether she still holds that role was never publicly clarified.

This is the same Zena Ozeir who drew public scrutiny after posting, “Every accusation made by the Zionist entity is an admission. F*ck them, f*ck America, f*ck genocide apologists.” Dana Nessel’s office said it was “reviewing” the post. If any action was taken, it was never publicly disclosed.

Is someone currently on the Michigan AG’s payroll participating in this panel or not? Because the public deserves a straight answer. Her LinkedIn still lists the role as “Present,” for whatever that’s worth.

🚨 Spanberger’s Incoming DEI Chief Cheers a Mob Tearing Down a Columbus Statue, Says the “Ancestors” Took Over

Governor-elect Abigail Spanberger just announced Dr. Sesha Joi Moon as Virginia’s next Chief Diversity Officer and Director of DEI.

In this clip from 2022, Moon recounts a mob yanking a monument down and dumping it in the water, then treats it as righteous because “the ancestors” supposedly guided it.

“Richmond is the only place where the people brought down the first one. It wasn’t the politicians, it wasn’t an organization. The people one night got... The ancestors, just took a hold and said ‘we’re done here’ and yanked that joint down and then threw it in the water. I was on IG [Instagram] like, ‘Richmond is going off right now!’”

The statue she’s talking about was not Confederate. It was Christopher Columbus, funded by roughly 1,000 Italian-American residents of Richmond. It was even opposed by the KKK at the time because Columbus was viewed as a Catholic foreigner.

Not exactly reassuring for the Commonwealth that the state’s incoming top DEI official is openly cheering on, and materially supporting, street radicals smashing civic monuments. After being torn down, the Columbus statue ended up safely in Rockland County, New York, where residents funded its restoration and brought it to their local Sons of Italy lodge.

🚨 UVA Law Pays Anne Coughlin $375,700 to Flinch at “Police” and Hype Abolitionists as “The More the Merrier”

UVA Law professor Anne Coughlin made $375,700 in 2024. Watch how she treats the word “police” like it’s radioactive:

“I don’t wanna use the word police… some of you may be abolitionists… that’s fine, the more the merrier.”

Then she turns a law school classroom into a policy shop:

“You can insist that you get police out of traffic enforcement.”

“You are going to convince your legislators, your city councils, your police that they should cut this out. They should no longer have police in traffic enforcement.”

And she frames freedom as “being protected against the police.”

Then she tells on herself: “I’m assuming everyone violates the traffic code all the time because I do,” and says the police tell her she’s “not a threat,” which “kind of upsets” her because she wants “to be scary.”

Then comes the racial generalization:

“My students of color say to me, ‘You violate the traffic laws all the time because you’re a white woman.’”

This is not training lawyers. It’s training activists. A law school professor’s job is to teach students how to argue both sides, not hand them a preloaded ideology and call it “education.”

And yes, there’s another side she skips. Traffic enforcement is one of the main ways serious crime gets caught in real time: DUI, stolen vehicles, illegal guns, warrants, missing persons, and suspects. Stops and crashes can turn volatile fast, and civilian “ticketing” units don’t have the authority or capacity to detain, investigate, arrest, and control chaotic scenes end-to-end.

Reform is fair game, but “no police in traffic enforcement” ignores deterrence, escalation, and the evidentiary work that actually delivers public safety and justice.

And notice the move: “the court has said,” then “Justice Thomas has indicated,” so one justice’s views get treated as the Supreme Court.

If UVA Law wants to be an activist academy, say so. If it wants to be a law school, start acting like one.

Next: the UVA professor targeted by colleagues for taking a Supreme Court case that went 9–0. For a school with a top-five reputation, the dysfunction is hard to ignore.

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🚨 The Melanie Yazzie “I hope you seek to dismantle the United States” clip is doing the rounds again via engagement-hunters with outdated info.

I broke this originally: she’s no longer at Minnesota; she’s now Researcher in Residence at Macalester College. Here is her new bio as well.

🧵 “Nationalize All the Property”: Inside the Alliance for Gobal Justice Network that Congress Just Rightfully Targeted

$54,150,822 lives rent-free in my head.

That’s how much the Alliance for Global Justice burned in 2020 bankrolling the networks that helped fuel street-level chaos.

A few weeks ago @Jim_Jordan and the House Judiciary Committee ordered AFGJ to preserve every document and communication from 2017 to today with Antifa-aligned groups and Refuse Fascism. Thursday was the deadline.

And that letter went to one of the men in this video — James Jordan, National Co-Coordinator at AFGJ (no relation to the congressman, just an inconvenient coincidence).

The speakers here may be older and a little boring. Don’t let that fool you. They’re completely open about what they want and have a respectable war chest.

Here’s what James Jordan and his AFGJ cohort were discussing last week.

“The entire government is taking steps that descend into fascism.”

“We gotta just raise up the volume, put the pressure on these pigs.”

“There is a campaign for unions to blockade military cargo to Israel.”

“Send that bourgeoisie, local bourgeoisie crying to the Cuban Gusanos in Miami.” (Gusano means “worm,” a Fidel-era slur for Cubans who fled the regime.)

“The Cártel de los Soles doesn’t exist. It’s a fabrication. It’s a complete fabrication.” (A straight-up Maduro talking point.)

“The only way… to defeat American imperialism is… a new international… and [to] nationalize all the property in the hands of the imperialists and their local lackeys.”

One speaker even claims the Puerto Rican National Guard will rebel if the U.S. moves on Venezuela. I don’t know about that, but it’s a hell of a thing to be saying into a microphone.

Do you think AFGJ actually handed over those records?
Or are they gearing up to pour some money into labor and far-left Venezuela organizing? During FY2020, AFGJ dumped $49 million into the BLM, bail-fund, and prison-abolition lane. That kind of money doesn’t just “support movements” — it keeps people in the streets and the machinery running. Here’s how the rest of their network breaks down:

32 — Foreign policy / Latin America / “Mideast” / immigration
19 — BLM-aligned groups, bail funds, prison-abolition projects
12 — Movement-building outfits for U.S. organizing
12 — Human rights / Indigenous / environmental / labor groups
Multiple — Catch-all “justice” projects with no listed count

🚨 I obtained William & Mary Professor Stephen Sheehi’s What Is Decolonization? syllabus for Fall 2025 through a FOIA request.

It’s every bit as radical as you’d expect — and then some.

Let’s take a look inside. 🧵 Here’s page one of William & Mary Professor Stephen Sheehi’s What Is Decolonization? syllabus for Fall 2025.

It starts with a land acknowledgment but quickly turns into a sweeping denunciation of the university itself — blasting William & Mary for its current ties to “corporations,” “the carceral state,” “the U.S. military,” and “racial capitalism.”

In reality, these are warped claims — things like the university having a campus police force or partnerships with the military are reframed here as evidence of systemic oppression.

This isn’t a course introduction. It’s an ideological manifesto.

Course Overview is already off to the races — diving straight into “cisheteronormativity,” “ableism,” “capitalism,” and “climate disaster.”

And we’ve still got seven more pages to go. 🤡

🚨 The “Behind Enemy Lines” October 7th materials openly list targets across NYC — businesses tied to the President’s family, Democratic offices, major universities, consulates, Jewish organizations, and even private companies.

"No business as usual. Escalate for Gaza."
It’s important to note this militant network has produced similar maps for multiple U.S. cities. Below is the one for Chicago.

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🚨 Flag Burning at UVA Isn’t Spontaneous Activism. It’s a Strategy. Don’t Take the Bait.

Meet UVA Law Student Kirk Wolff, the organizer behind the Antifascist Tailgate and Flag Burning hosted by his group, Friends Against Fascism Organization (FAFO).

“My name is Kirk Wolff. I am a US Navy veteran and a law student at the University of Virginia, and I burned an American flag today, about 90 minutes after President Trump said that burning a flag would result in immediate arrest and imprisonment for a year.”

“The real desecration of our nation’s ideals is coming from the White House. That’s who’s desecrating the flag.”

Wolff has a long record of provocative activism and has done the exact same thing before while protesting for Palestine. The last time, UVA invoked time, place, and manner restrictions, and it quickly turned into a media frenzy over a “student threatened with expulsion for Palestine.”

Now he’s at it again, escalating as UVA melts down over being invited to join President Trump’s Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education.

Expect more of this. Wolff knows how to manufacture outrage and frame it as persecution. It’s attention-seeking designed to provoke a confrontation that he and his allies can spin into a civil rights cause. Don’t play into his hand. Earlier this year, he managed to spark a full-blown media frenzy — even Reason took the bait. In truth, it was less about censorship or persecution and more about information-seeking gone sideways: an administrator who’d likely never dealt with something like this before, and confusion over whether explicit political advocacy is allowed near UVA’s JAG School.

🚨 Mahmoud Khalil: Columbia is “McCarthyite and authoritarian” 🚨

In a new video, Khalil says Columbia “bent the knee to Trump” and insists the school must “stand up for your students” and “listen, listen to their demands.”

He’s trying to rebrand disruptive encampments as a civil-rights crusade — curious timing, given this drops the same week a judge ruled he can be deported.

Khalil says he wants “difficult conversations.” Okay, let’s start with the CUAD Substack — where, as spokesman, he pushed a movement openly calling for the end of Western civilization. It’s a point @tal_fortgang (follow him) has made again and again. Read their Substack! The second most recent post literally defends someone who torched 11 police cars.

So tell us, Mahmoud — is torching police vehicles your idea of a civil right?

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This clip, from a longer interview with Georges Abdallah — the Lebanese Marxist revolutionary — is now being pushed hard across the pro-Palestine social media.

In it, Abdallah frames Elias Rodriguez’s alleged murder of two embassy staffers as a "revolutionary duty" to eliminate "Israeli agents." The rhetoric is extreme: denying that civilians were targeted, dismissing any call for "politeness and restraint," and urging revolutionaries in the West to rise up.

And it’s being shared by everyone from Calla Walsh to Code Pink ally and GWU grad student Moataz "Taz" Salim — all just days after Charlie Kirk was assassinated. The message is unmistakable: the movement must intensify, even if it means resorting to more extreme and deadly measures.